fine-tune

verb

fine-tuned; fine-tuning; fine-tunes

transitive verb

1
a
: to adjust precisely so as to bring to the highest level of performance or effectiveness
fine-tune a TV set
fine-tune the format
b
: to improve through minor alteration or revision
fine-tune the temperature of the room
2
: to stabilize (an economy) by small-scale fiscal and monetary manipulations

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In our company, this policy has led to local clinicians fine-tuning best practices and introducing new technologies in their operating rooms, which have been propagated across the company. Len Wright, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 These systems will be fine-tuned based on the test results prior to the next stage of sea trials. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025 Those qualities, if combined with consistency, will quell any concerns about his adaptability to the Premier League and the need to fine-tune his out-of-possession attributes. 7. Steve Madeley, New York Times, 17 June 2025 What was once a surgery performed as a last resort to recapture your youthful look has now become one of the most popular treatments to fine-tune your facial features. Audrey Noble, Vogue, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fine-tune

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of fine-tune was in 1959

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“Fine-tune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fine-tune. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.

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